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Camp Hope to move into emergency shelter Monday
The doors to a new emergency shelter are to open at 10 a.m. Monday to house at least some of those who have been living at Core Community Park in Camp Hope. "Unfortunately there is no pleasure in this...
Nov 15, 2021 Camp Hope in Regina's Pepsi Park. (Logan Stein/980 CJME file photo)
Landlord association supports SIS change
Restoring direct payments for some Saskatchewan Income Support (SIS) clients is a step in the right direction, according to the CEO of the Saskatchewan Landlord Association, Cameron Choquette. On Frid...
Nov 13, 2021
Changes coming to Saskatchewan Income Support program
The Saskatchewan government has backtracked on changes it made to the Saskatchewan Income Support (SIS) program. The Ministry of Social Services said in a release Friday it will increase support for S...
Nov 12, 2021 (980 CJME file photo)
RM fire hall under construction as opponents call it unnecessary
Golden shovels in hand, the local MLA, reeve, fire chief and construction leader officially opened construction on the new fire hall for the RM of Edenwold on Friday, even as opposition to the project...
Nov 10, 2021 The reeve of the RM of Edenwold, Mitch Huber, defends the new fire hall being built, saying it's needed in the area.(Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. company at forefront of sustainable lithium mining with new tech
The demand for lithium has jumped substantially in the last few years and is poised to keep doing so as electric vehicles continue storming the vehicle market. The hitch is that mining the lithium its...
Nov 09, 2021 Zach Maurer, the president and CEO of Prairie Lithium, holds a small jar of lithium and other jars of the chemicals used in the process of extracting lithium from oil well brine on Nov. 9, 2021. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Sask. woman in dire need of kidney blames government for surgery suspension
Jessica Bailey was getting ready to get her life-saving kidney transplant this past summer. She and her donor had gone through a year of testing and some unfortunate setbacks, but they had the green l...
Nov 08, 2021 Jessica Bailey is in dire need of a kidney and says that the health-care slowdown, which she says is the fault of government inaction, means she hasn't been able to get one. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
SHA employee vaccine program to start this month
This month, all Saskatchewan Health Authority employees will have to either be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or submit to a testing program on their own dime. In mid-October, employees had to decl...
Nov 05, 2021 (Brady Lang/650 CKOM file photo)
Health authority looking to resume many health-care services in November
The Saskatchewan government has set a 50-75-90 goal for workers who were moved to help with the COVID-19 fourth wave surge to go back to their original jobs, and for some services to resume over the n...
Nov 04, 2021
Family brings frustrations over health slowdowns to legislature
Nearly one-year-old Helen briefly pulled at her mother's mask while Laura Weins and Graham Dickson spoke to media, explaining why they're so angry with the provincial government. The couple knew early...
Nov 04, 2021 Laura Weins and Graham Dickson are frustrated with the provincial government, saying it opened too early and the fourth wave has pushed back their daughter's much-needed therapies. Nov. 3, 2021 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
'Realize the sacrifices': Remembrance for surviving service members, families
It has been nearly 30 years since Col. Gwen Bourque, currently 38th Canadian Brigade Group Commander, joined the military. She spoke at the ceremony on Wednesday in the rotunda at the Legislative Buil...
Nov 03, 2021 The Service of Remembrance for the Public Service was held in the rotunda of the Legislative Building on Nov. 3, 2021. (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
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